ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with how the population apparatus was constructed in and through the articulation of environmentalism to its governing logics and how this articulated relationship served as a mode of transportation by which Malthus was able to travel to different regions of the world. It explains how a green Malthusianism was constructed by the invention of a biological norm that created an environment-population problematic: the central problem was an imbalance between population and resources. The chapter demonstrates how family planning was advocated as a solution to this growing imbalance between population growth and resources, particularly in relation to food. It analyzes how the Indian food crisis, from 1965 to 1967, contributed to the materialization of the population apparatus within the state apparatuses of the United States. The chapter shows how the environment-population articulation was reiterated within a set of institutional logics governing different populations.
